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Action

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.